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Glad to help . Identifying equipment makes anything you're doing a whole lot easier in the long run.

It's been a while since I've seen a full scan out there, so, well, here's one. Those of you with good ears will notice that besides the recordings and upper 11xx ringouts, the ring you hear isn't coming from the 5ESS. The numbers are still on the 5ESS; I got the chance to hear something make an intra-office call on it. What's happening is something, presumably sharing the trunks to the PSTN with the 5E, is superimposing fake ring over the real thing. Obviously they couldn't do that for the recordings since they don't supe, so you hear the real ring there. My guess is it has something to do with this;

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Hey guys I'm pretty new to phones and scanning and found this weird thing and was wondering if any of you guys happen to know what this thing is: 601-748-4225 enter 5555# - it seems to be some kind of monitor with weird conversations.

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601-748-4225 enter 5555# - it seems to be some kind of monitor with weird conversations.

What... the... hell...

Very bizarre... Seems to 'scan' for conversations, because I heard a few different rings before it locked into something.

Also seems like an international sort of company?

http://www.npanxxsource.com reports the whole 4xxx block as being established in early 2014, as part of Bandwidth.com, so it's some sort of virtual... Conference? PBX? Not sure. But interesting nonetheless!

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I heard a conversation with a guy and a woman talking about bob white and Gerard, and there's some cellular interference in the middle of the call. AND IT LOOPS! So it was a recording, they kept saying the same things over and over.

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601-748-4225 enter 5555# - it seems to be some kind of monitor with weird conversations.

What... the... hell...

So let's go weirder... Dialing in today, it takes near 30 seconds to supe. When it does, there's a beep... Then what SOUNDS like a busy signal from the distant end (staticy). Now... Tap a key. BEEP, and the busy signal is gone. Definitely seems to connected to -something-, but it's quite a clear connection at that point. Any other touch tones seem to have no effect.

ThoughtPhreaker, the BEEP sounds suspiciously like the one from Evan's recording of the 052 Conference.

So I really want to say there's a way to possibly -start- a conference on here (and not just -listen-), but I'm not sure how yet.

I heard what sounded like a really pissed-off lady talking to some guy with a slight Middle eastern accent, saying something about I.I.R.C. how Halliburton was under investigation and she wasn't going to bother buying any shares on it, or something. I think she also mentioned something about "Vice President Cheney" in there so these recordings must be fairly old. That particular recording had some ring voltage and a caller-identification burst at the beginning.

Sounds like they're from some investment firm or a bank or something. The few I heard all involve stocks in some way or other.

So apparently it's a cellphone but I wonder if it's just somebody having dumb phun with Asterisk or a playback machine of some kind (number portability). Hmm, can we maybe say "honeypot"?...

... This seems fishy, there's always a conversation to hear. I don't believe it's real, either that or it's playing back what it's heard, not what it's hearing.

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I agree with the honeypot conclusion. I just now realized that the tones before and after the pin prompt were from the bell system voicemail trial of the early 80's. It's on one of Evan doorbell's recent recordings.

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That's also what I thought when I first heard it, they're not the same but they sound similar. (Hmm, 'spose maybe they got it from GTE?) The "identification number please" and "error" prompts are also clearly pre-recorded samples. it is very subtle if you listen on the telephone (at least I can't) but it's very evident on headphones.

I noticed the ringback once it connects is substantially louder and "dirtier" sounding than my standard 5E ringback, so it must be a PBX of some kind. (There are devices that are basically a stripped-down cell phone, and you connect a regular POTS telephone/modem/FAX machine to it similar to how you'd do with a VOIP gateway, enabling you to use wireline devices on the cell network, maybe it's a PBX connected through one of those?) Also, hitting "#" after dialing the number seems to dump me into some kind of a VMS. I didn't think to play around with it, and instead just hung up on it and tried again, but I suspect that it must be a function of the cell phone system that this thing may or may not be homing on.

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I'm surprised to hear anything related to rate & route these days... Though it doesn't seem to do anything more than say ​it's for R&R... No op, no options... Wondering if it responds to some special SS7 sequence or something.

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Speaking of GTE California, (562) 592-1592. It's a route verification number, but instead of a recording, you get 4 bursts of reorder and a busy signal, and it seems that half the calls I make into this switch go over a noisy, obviously analog, trunk. Neat.

EDIT: (909) 390-1390 is another one, but with a milliwatt instead of busy.
Edited February 11, 2016 by xhausted110

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I just went through that directory, and it seems that most of the numbers in there still work, provided the switching equipment hasn't changed since. You just have to look up the CLLI to get the new area code. For example, the 105 type test on LNBHCAXT43K still works. (562) 433-1110

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Speaking of GTE California, (562) 592-1592. It's a route verification number, but instead of a recording, you get 4 bursts of reorder and a busy signal, and it seems that half the calls I make into this switch go over a noisy, obviously analog, trunk. Neat.

EDIT: (909) 390-1390 is another one, but with a milliwatt instead of busy.

That 562 number actually has milliwatt as well. It's after about 10-15 seconds of the busy signal.

The studdery low tone on that 562 number is interesting. DMS-100s have some weird test function that always starts out with two or three pulses of that; 415-622-0000, 620-342-9901. I have no idea what it does, but for whatever it's worth, it only accepts one simultaneous call.

Also, I didn't get any analog carrier noise on the 562 number either.

EDIT: StankDawg was nice enough to pull me aside, and give me the old post data from before the forum database rebuild, so here's the other five numbers I posted with that low tone thing. Thanks, Stank!